Blank Verse
- has unrhyming iambic pentameter (kind of like a sonnet)
-no set number of lines (this is how it's different from a sonnet)
Iambic Pentameter meaning that each line has 10 syllables with a stress on syllables 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10.
It has also been said that it is most like the way we speak with the iambic often also compared to a heartbeat. There are many everyday phrases that fit into this pattern.
Does anybody want a cup of tea?
William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’.
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.--Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky…
From https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poeticforms/blank-verse